There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.