I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.