The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

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

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

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.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.