The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.