.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.