We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.