The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of individual freedom and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling. - Charles Dudley Warner

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

Can it be that there is anything of more consequence in life than the great business in hand, which absorbs the vitality and genius of this age? Surely, we say, it is better to go by steam than to go afoot, because we reach our destination sooner — getting there quickly being a supreme object. It is well to force the soil to yield a hundred-fold, to congregate men in masses so that all their energies shall be taxed to bring food to themselves, to stimulate industries, drag coal and metal

Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.