“It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.”

“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”

“Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

“When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”

“Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

“If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”