“Our best thoughts come from others.”
Best“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Best“Our best thoughts come from others.”
Best“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
Men“As soon as there is life there is danger.”
Life“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.”
Love“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Experience“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”
Life“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Truth“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Men“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Good“The first wealth is health.”
Fitness“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Change“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
Great“All diseases run into one, old age.”
Age“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
Time“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.”
Good“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”
Courage“Nature hates calculators.”
Nature“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Time“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
Death“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Friendship