Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.