Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.