When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Every child begins the world again.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.