The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

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

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.