The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

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

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

God is not He who is, but That which is.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.