The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance