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.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.