If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

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