Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

The part of life which we really live is short.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.