Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.