There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.