"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure."

"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home."

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."

"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."

"It is a unyielding truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter — an essential principle for the reflective life."