“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.”

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”

“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”

“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature......”

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical an...”

“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”