To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Each man the architect of his own fate.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.