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 shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

We feel and know that we are eternal.