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

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.