An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

The universe really is motion & nothing else.