Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.