Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.

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?

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.