Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.