So it is with the philosophers.

All alike are in search of Happiness--what kind of thing it is.

One says one thing, one another: it is pleasure; it is virtue;--what not?
And Happiness may indeed be one of those things.

But it is possible [168] also that it may be still something else, different and distinct from them all.
-- What is this ?--There is something, I know not how, very sad and disheartening in what you say.

We seem to have come round in a circle to the spot whence we started, and to our first incertitude.