Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.