We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.