Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.