The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.