I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.