"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"Things do not change; we change."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."