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

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.