It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

He lives well who is well hidden.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Reason is nothing without imagination.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.