I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.