Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.