When thou hast assumed these names, good, modest, true, rational, a man of equanimity, and magnanimous, take care that thou dost not change these names; and if thou shouldst lose them, quickly return to them.
In his personal reflections, this passage urges the reader to embody and consistently uphold the virtues they aspire to represent.
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There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
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