I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Activity is contagious.