I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.