The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.