Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The first wealth is health.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.