“Example is contagious behavior.”

“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

“I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'Then look your fill, and leap away.”

“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”