But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

The first wealth is health.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

Life is too short to waste.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.