“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”

“Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.”

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”

“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”

“Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy”

“Do as we say, and not as we do”