There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

I honor health as the first Muse.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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.