The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Action achieves more than words.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.