A hedge between keeps friendship green.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.