Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

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

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.