The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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

God is not He who is, but That which is.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.