Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.