Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.