Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.