“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is...”

“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”

“Honest labor bears a lovely face.”

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“Age is like love, it cannot be hid.”

“This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.”

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”

“Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.”

“I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?”