“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not me...”

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”