Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.