If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.