I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

All is One (Nature, God)

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.