There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.