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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.