True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.