They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.