Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.