A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.