There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

The thing I fear most is fear.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.