There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.