Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

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.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.