Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Rest is for the dead.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!