“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Virtue is harmony.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

Friends share all things.

Above all things, respect yourself.