We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

To sing is to pray twice.