The Conduct of Life

It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four…

There is not yet any inventory of a man’s faculties, any more than a bible of his opinions. Who shall set a limit to the influence of a…

As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get…

The word of ambition at the present day is Culture. Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, and of wealth as a means of power, culture…

The soul which animates Nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement, and gesture of animated bodies, than in its…

Some of my friends have complained, when the preceding papers were read, that we discussed Fate, Power, and Wealth, on too low a platform;…

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So much fate, so…

The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also. Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know. What a parade we…

Some years ago, in company with an agreeable party, I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. We traversed,…