“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”

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

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”

“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”