All perishable is but an allegory.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

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

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.