Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Life well spent is long.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.