Surely joy is the condition of life.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

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.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.