“Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.”

Water is the best of all things.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Learn what you are and be such.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.