A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.