The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.