My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

No one will love you more than you do. So love your self first.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.

Look for magic in the daily routine

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.

The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.