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

To love someone is to identify with them.

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

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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.