“One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason.”

“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”

“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.”

“The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.”

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”

“I had but very little prospect, from my own application, of obtaining the necessary supplies of cash. What additional influence your Excellency's letter will give to my reasons and representation, time only can manifest.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“The scientific sterility of the Middle Ages has to be condemned for the same reasons which make it necessary today to condemn the philosophic sterility of scientism.”

“The service professions such as medicine and teaching have proud and age-old traditions. Only relatively recently have we realised that serving people's information needs can be as socially valuable as looking after their health and educational needs.”