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!
Man is a tool-using animal.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Biography is the only true history.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.