Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Men's language is as their lives.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.