How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Every journey has an end.
The part of life which we really live is short.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.