Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

There is no history of how bad became better.

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life