Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.