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.
Henry David ThoreauWe have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?
Henry David ThoreauThe slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
Henry David Thoreau