Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

We exist within the question of God.