It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.