Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.
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