Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.