Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.