A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

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.

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?