Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

When someone is in need of healing, it is good to pray for wisdom from our Father because there may be an open door to sickness in their lives that they have not yet considered.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

The red washing down the bathtub can’t change the color of the sea at all.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.