Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

The essence of love is kindness.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.