The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.