True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.