Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Be as you wish to seem.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

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.