“ A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ”

“ It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ”

“ Have the courage to act instead of react. ”

“ Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ”

“ But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ”

“ Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing. ”

“ Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. ”

“ Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ”

“ Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. ”

“ Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall. ”