To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.