You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.