All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.