It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the …

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to th…

Appetite comes with eating...but the thirst goes away with drinking.

Vronsky, meanwhile, in spite of the complete realization of what he had so long desired, was not perfectly happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desi…

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout,- Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within wou…