To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.