It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.