The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.