How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

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

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.