The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.