Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.