He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.