The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.