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

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

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.