if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.