Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.