. . . from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim.