The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.