The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.