He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.