Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.