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

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.

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.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.