The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.

I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.