I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Do what you're afraid to do.