The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.