When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.