The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.