"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and so make sure of twenty digits."

"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."