Whatsoever is, is in God.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

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