“To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery”

“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”

“I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely”