We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.