Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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