Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.