There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.