A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Do not be ashamed of help.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.