Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.