I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

March to the beat of your own drummer.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.