There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

There is no power greater than true affection.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.