We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

the heart never grows old.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Love dies only when growth stops.