The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.