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.

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.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.