I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

I stand in awe of my body.