If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.