No One Can Be Profoundly Original Who

A Great Biography Should, Like The Close Of A Great Drama, Leave Behind It A Feeling Of Serenity. We Collect Into A Small Bunch The Flowers, The Few Flowers, Which Brought Sweetness Into A Life, And Present It As An Offering To An Accomplished Destiny. It Is The Dying Refrain Of A Completed Song, The Final Verse Of A Finished Poem.

The Greedy Search For Money Or Success Will Almost Always Lead Men Into Unhappiness. Why? Because That Kind Of Life Makes Them Depend Upon Things Outside Themselves.

Men Fear Silence As They Fear Solitude, Because Both Give Them A Glimpse Of The Terror Of Life's Nothingness.

If Men Could Regard The Events Of Their Own Lives With More Open Minds, They Would Frequently Discover That They Did Not Really Desire The Things They Failed To Obtain.

A Great Man's Manias Must Be Respected, Because The Time Required To Combat Them Is Too Precious To Waste.