"The more I see of the world, the more I am disgusted with it."

"We make idols of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."

"What is self? A man is a body and a mind. What is the body? A part of the mind. What is the mind? A part of God."

"We are generally more persuaded by the reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have been discovered by others."

"All our dignity consists in thought. It is by this that we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor, then, to think well; this is the principle of moral…"