“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.