We are superior to the joy we experience.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
He who owns little is little owned.
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
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.