Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.