Our virtues and view spring from one root.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.