All is One (Nature, God)

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.