A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.