The Very Plants Turn With A Joyful

I Have Enjoyed Earthly Happiness, I Have Lived And Loved.

The Happy Man Does Not Notice The Flight Of Time.

Friends Show Me What I Can Do, Foes Teach Me What I Should Do.

Against Stupidity, God Himself Fights In Vain.

Egotism Erects Its Center In Itself; Love Places It Out Of Itself In The Axis Of The Universal Whole. Love Aims At Unity, Egotism At Solitude. Love Is The Citizen Ruler Of A Flourishing Republic, Egotism Is A Despot In A Devastated Creation. Egotism Sows For Gratitude, Love For The Ungrateful. Love Gives, Egotism Lends; And Love Does This Before The Throne Of Judicial Truth, Indifferent If For The Enjoyment Of The Following Moment, Or With The View To A Martyr's Crown--indifferent Whether The Reward Is In This Life Or In The Next.