Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.