"It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthle…"

"Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune."

"Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling."

"Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world."

"I wish I could be more like the moon—aloof and untroubled."