I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.