The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.