Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.