I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

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.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.