What is fear of need but need itself?

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.