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

"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be …"

"If a man is able to show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance."

"What is evil? It is that which you have often seen. And on all occasions, when thou art vexed at anything, remember that it is nothing else than that which thou hast often seen. And generally thou wil…"

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."