Nothing ages like laziness.

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

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

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.