You cannot do a kindness too soon.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

Be a gift and a benediction.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.