Virtue is the truest liberty.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

Presumptions macerate mind.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.