It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content