There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.