I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.