Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.