No human thing is of serious importance.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.