If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.