Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

All is One (Nature, God)

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.