There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.