Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers