Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.