Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear.

The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.