Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.