He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.

When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes, When the mind has a "formal cut,"-- There is a place and enough for the pains of prose; But whenever the May-blood stires and glows, And the young year draws to the "golden prime," And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,-- Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented. from the book"Total Wellness." -Dr. Joseph Pizzorno.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.