"I am an old man, and I have had many troubles, but most of them never happened."

"Truth, like gold, is not to be obtained by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"The highest wisdom has but one science, the science of the whole, the science of understanding God, the understanding of creation and destiny."

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that. Stop him at once to work, and you will be surprised how soon it gets rusty."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cannot eat it."