I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.