Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.