If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.