Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.