Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.