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

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.