The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

The true ship is the ship builder.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.