"That which is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

"The faculty of reason is the only one which can contemplate itself, and by itself distinguish truth from falsehood, and the real from the unreal."

"Because your life is not a series of unconnected periods, but a single, continuous stream, it is only in the present that you truly live."

"Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power."

"The soul of a man is a portion of God."