That love for one, from which there doth not spring
Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

How senseless is the sordid love of gain;
Blind to all else the mind that's set on profit.

men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth of the mind.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth of the mind.

Life is a useless passion.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

'Tis a world
Where all is bought, and nothing's worth the price.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.