"The silent observer understands that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"It is a essential truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 56 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 66."

"A life well-lived is a testament that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky."