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

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

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.