Compassion is the basis of morality.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.