There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I stand in awe of my body.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.