When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.