Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.