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

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.