Acorns were good until bread was found.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.