Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What...
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.
As for time, all men have it in abundance.
The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
