The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.