Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.