Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, - How sweet this crust is!

Let me suggest a theme for you: to state to yourself precisely and completely what that walk over the mountains amounted to for you, - returning to this essay …

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying exis…

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to…

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end;…