The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

One change has been the number of countries we track, which is a reflection of the pace of reform and progress on the continent. Another change has been the continuing progression towards peaceful transitions in power, which has resulted in a new generation of leadership coming into its own.

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

Reflection poisons experience.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.