The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.