The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Evils draw men together.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.