What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.