The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. 

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. 

Corruption may affect our body as well as our mind.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here. 

The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.