The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.