Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.