In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

Attract them by the way you live.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.