Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.