"Our country is wherever we are well..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.”

“Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.”

“Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?”

“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”

“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”

“For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”

“I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.”

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

“The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.”