Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.