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.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

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

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.