The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.