The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions —…

When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.

It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation than what the occupation is which they select.

The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world.

The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. The duties of the office of private citizen cannot under a …

[N]o people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .