"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 96."

"Wisdom principle 98 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 26."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights."

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

"Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth."