Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.