No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

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.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.