It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

I shall hear in heaven.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.