While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.