Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

Renew thyself completely each day.