"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.