"When in doubt, do it."

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

"The AmenT of Nature is always a flower."

"Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

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

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

"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?"

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."

"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

"A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull."

"Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."