Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.