"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"Sometimes I almost think that I am a pagan, and that I would rather worship the sun than any other god."

"I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways."

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in par…"

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."