Philosophy begins with wonder.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

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.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.