Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.