A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful...

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.