Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

I don't feel competitive.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?