8-1:
Understanding makes the trouble of life lighter to bear.

8-2:
The same herb planted in various atmospheric conditions will vary in form accordingly, but will retain its characteristics.

8-3:
Think, before envying the position of your fellow man, with what difficulty he has arrived at it.

8-4:
Life is what it is; you cannot change it, but you can always change yourself.

8-5:
Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

8-6:
External life is the shadow of the inner reality.

8-7:
At the cost of one failure, the wise learn the lesson for the whole of life.

8-8:
The more you evolve spiritually, the further you pass from the understanding of every man.

8-9:
One word can be more precious than all the treasures of the earth.

8-10:
Narrowness is primitiveness; it is the breadth of heart that proves evolution.

8-11:
It is simpler to find a way to heaven than to find a way on earth.

8-12:
It is God, who by the hand of man, designs and carries out His intended plans in nature.

8-13:
The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God.

8-14:
In the country you see the glory of God; in the city you glorify His name.

8-15:
The pain of life is the price paid for the quickening of the heart.

8-16:
Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

8-17:
Love is the current coin of all peoples in all periods.

8-18:
Do not take the example of another as an excuse for your own wrongdoing.

8-19:
Overlook the greatest fault of another, but do not partake of it yourself in the smallest degree.

8-20:
Cleverness and complexity are not necessarily wisdom.

8-21:
The whole world's treasure is too small a price to pay for a word that kindles the soul.

8-22:
He is living whose sympathy is awake; and he is dead whose heart is asleep.

8-23:
By our thoughts we have prepared for ourselves the happiness or unhappiness we experience.

8-24:
Put your trust in God for support and see His hidden hand working through all sources.

8-25:
Faith is the A B C of the realization of God; this faith begins by prayer.

8-26:
Passion is the smoke and emotion is the glow of love's fire; unselfishness is the flame that illumines the path.

8-27:
The soul of Christ is the light of the universe.

8-28:
Death is a tax the soul has to pay for having had a name and a form.

8-29:
A pure life and a clean conscience are as two wings attached to the soul.

8-30:
The giver is greater than the gift.

8-31:
He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.