Great Throughts Treasury

"What does your mind seek? Where is your heart? If you give your heart to each and every thing, you lead it nowhere; you destroy your heart. Can anything be found on earth?"

"Banish care. If there be bounds to pleasure, the saddest life must also have an end. Then weave your wreath of flowers, and sing your songs in praise of the all-powerful God; for the glory of this world soon fades away."

"One day we must go, one night we will descend into the region of mystery. Here, we only come to know ourselves; only in passing are we here on earth."