Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.