There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. Things do not change, we change. The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. | 
