He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!