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

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.