Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.