The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.