A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The beginnings of all things are small.

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

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.