Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

We are older by faith than by experience.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.