God’s greatest gift to mankind is our intellect. Even for those of you who are not of the faithful, the sheer logic alone cannot be denied. Education lifts a people to greater ability and achievement.
Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume.
We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.
The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.
If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.
Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
After all, plans are one thing; then the battle happens.
Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.
There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God’s creation is.
I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow.
We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.
He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived… and died… what he believed.
What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.
Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.
We had little but we didn’t know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.
And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy… But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.
A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.
Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.
You may be a good warrior… But you’ve made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.
There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one’s life.
Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything.
You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.
A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.