Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.