Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.