Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Life is nothing without friendship.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.