Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.