Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.