If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

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.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.