“There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.”

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

War is the mother of everything.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

I’m exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.