If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?