God is the indwelling 

and not the transient cause 

of all things.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I have striven 

not to laugh at human actions, 

not to weep at them, 

nor to hate them, 

but to understand them.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The world would be happier 

if men had the same capacity to be silent 

that they have to speak.

He alone is free 

who lives with free consent 

under the entire guidance of reason.

The endeavour to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Peace is not an absence of war, 

it is a virtue, a state of mind, 

a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The highest activity a human being can attain 

is learning for understanding, 

because to understand is to be free.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, 

and no fear unmingled with hope.