Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

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