Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.