More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.