The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.