"It is a quiet truth that peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler."

"It is a steadfast truth that breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

"Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

"“I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.  “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone.“To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”"

"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."