Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.