The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.