In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Man is a biped without feathers.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.