The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.