Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.