Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.