Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?