If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.