"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk"
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again"
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live"
