1. “By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth.”
2. “Logic has made me hated in the world.”
3. “Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”
4. “The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in scripture to beasts.”
5. “Love is incapable of being concealed; a word, a look, nay, silence, speaks it.”
6. “We do many things carelessly or unwillingly, but nothing studiously unless are are willing and apply ourselves.”
7. “Everyone wishes to be saved, but few will use those means which religion prescribes.”
8. “Jealousy can easily believe the most terrible things.”
9. “It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit.”
10. “We commonly die to the affections of those we see no more, and they to ours; absence is the tomb of love.”
