Treat your friend as a spectacle.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.