The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.