Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.