Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

I love the broad margin to my life.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.