What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.