Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.