The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.