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.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Character is simply habit long continued.