To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

What is more agreeable than one's home?