Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.