Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

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.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

I love a life whose plot is simple.