Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.