...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

The playthings of our elders are called business.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness