To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

All men are children, and of one family.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.