But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.