I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.