The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. Saadi on humility
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Vita Sackville-West on bore
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine Saint-Exupéry on inspiration
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. Sallust on change
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure. Herbert Samuel on marriage
One approaches the journey’s end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand on journey
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. Carl Sandburg on courage
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. Sankara on world
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. George Santayana on experience
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana on friendship
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana on happiness
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana on religion