Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.