All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

My trade and art is to live.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.