"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."