The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.