"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"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?"

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"I would rather be a corn-stalk in the field than a man in society."