The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".