What is this world coming to?

I just received a Porn/Spam Email, nothing new.
But at the bottom of the email they got philosophical.

Now we have educational and spiritual spam....

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live:
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it for error is always talkative. To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.