When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.