Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.