Vices are simply overworked virtues.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.