The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.

More company increases happiness but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Since taking office President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Deficits mean future tax increases pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening which increases with the setting sun of life.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.