Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.