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

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.