Do not read the newspapers.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.