I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.