Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

We become what we contemplate.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.