We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

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

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.