Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.