Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.