If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.