The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

Example has far more followers than reason.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.