The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect