When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.