It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors
Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.