It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation…

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

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 …

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

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.

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

For a while he trampled with impunity on laws human and divine; but, as he was obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell, at last, a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. "Remember, O Stranger, …