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.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.