Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.