All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.