Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.