"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." The Analects of Confucius

“There’s some real utility in gratitude.” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre. Beyond Good and Evil

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. The Naval Treaty