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

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

Love your life, poor as it is.