It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'