The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoo...n, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let God alone if need be. Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful dist...ance. It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover that God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know whom I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the world ...that we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in th...e mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies; for like a hair in the throat, so are they. "Eat and drink!" t...hey say to you; but they do not mean it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »