Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.