Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Different people seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life. It is easy to fly into a passion. . . All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. Happiness itself is sufficient cause. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast.