He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.