The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

Variety is the condition of harmony.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.