No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Nature is brimful of symbolic and analogical parallels to the goings and comings, the growth and the changes of the highest nature in man. It could not be otherwise. For not only did they issue from the same thought, but the one is made for the other. Nature is an outer garment for man, or a living house, rather, for man to live in.