I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.