It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.