Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.