The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.