The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.