Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.