I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.