Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.