"The greater the mind, the more it sees in others."

"The true religion teaches us our duties, our weaknesses, the pride and self-love that corrupt us, and the remedies which will cure us."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"All our dignity consists in thought."

"The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are either true or false according to the side on which we look at them."