If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.