“As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire”

“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid”

“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square”

“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued”

“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”

“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike”