When all is done, human life is, at the greatest, and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it qu… - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave it shall see fit to take away.

From these famous Indians, it seems most probable that Pythagoras learned, and transported into Greece and Italy, the greatest part of his natural and moral philosophy, rather than from the Aegyptians ... Nor does it seem unlikely that the Aegyptians themselves might have drawn much of their learning from the Indians ..long before .. Lycurgus, who likewise traveled to India, brought from thence also the chief principles of his laws.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.