“A thought is an idea in transit.”

Virtue is harmony.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Friends share all things.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Evolution is the Law of Life. Number is the Law of the Universe. Unity is the Law of God.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

I didn’t talk to anybody and say, “I’m going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?” This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.