The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.