Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.