Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.