Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.