The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.