Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

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.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.