Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.