What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.