We read to know we are not alone.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

You cannot make men good by law.