Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Let go of the past and go for the future.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.