Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.