The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.