The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

All is One (Nature, God)