"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved."

"The knowledge of God is not acquired by speculation, but by the study of His works."

"The man who is perfect in his knowledge of God is he who has attained to the knowledge of all things that exist."

"The wise man should not be ashamed to confess that he does not know what he does not know."

"The object of the Law is to make man perfect, by giving him true opinions concerning God, and concerning the existence of all things; and by removing from him all notions that are apt to lead to the b…"