It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.