What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

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.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.