"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"No man ever had a more agreeable dwelling place than this. It was a proper palace, a fit abode for a king."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."