The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.