If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.