How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.