Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.