"The universe is a harmony, and all discord is but harmony not understood."

"The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future."

"The happiness of a fool would be unbearable."

"If geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate it but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimede…"

"To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love."