I would stand upon facts.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.