Hygiene is two thirds of health.

Everything comes to him who waits.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. - Voltaire ,

A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?".

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

He wants Texas back.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

First come, first served.

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.

Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Knowledge is power.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.