"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

"The mind's highest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God."

"Emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it."

"The mind, when it understands things, does so according to the order of the intellect, and not according to the order of nature."

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."