The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

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

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

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

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.