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

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.