"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."

"I have yet to hear a man confess that he had no time for a walk."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"