The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.