People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

I will be lord over myself.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.