To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.