The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.