Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

Those who work much do not work hard.