Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.