It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.