Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.