“Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.”

“The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities.”

“The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.”

“Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.”

“Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.”

“I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”