I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.