I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

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.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.