All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.