If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.