Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.