In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

A pleasing face is no small advantage.