Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

I have met the soul walking upon my path.

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.