"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"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?"

"'Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.'"

"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 perceive that, when an old garment is taken off, the new is not yet put on."