Great Throughts Treasury

"Moses assigned to the body its proper tasks and similarly to the soul what falls to its share, and his earnest desire was, that the two should be waiting to relieve each other. Thus, while the body is working, the soul enjoys a respite, but when the body takes its rest, the soul resumes its work, and thus the best forms of life, the theoretical and the practical, take their turns in replacing each other. The practical life has six as its number allotted for ministering to the body. The theoretical has seven for knowledge and perfection of the mind."

"The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. "

"The exit of evil works the entrance of virtue."

"Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor, are not giving, they are bargaining."

"A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial."

"Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defense of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple."

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind."

"It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time... Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time."

"What God is to the world, parents are to their children."