It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.