All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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

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