As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.