To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Whatsoever is, is in God.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.