It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men...
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In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
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If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for...
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coa...
