To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.