Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs. It differs in that I attend men, not women, and that I take care of their souls when they are in labor, not their bodies. The triumph of my art is in the thorough examination of each thought which the young man's mind brings forth, to test whether it is a false idol, or a noble and true birth.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is natural poverty.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
