Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.