The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

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

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

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