the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.