We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.