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.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

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.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.