Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.