We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

One has no friend who has many friends.