The soul circumscribes all things.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.