The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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