I made my own house be my gallows.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.