Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
It's not enough to be busy.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.