Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.