Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.