The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.