Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

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

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.