There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.