It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

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

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.