"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplici…"

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"