Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.