I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Nature hates calculators.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.