If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!