Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.