"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."

"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole of nature."

"The intellectual love of God is eternal, and it is the highest good of the mind."

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."