Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Biography is the best form of history.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.