"I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways."

"It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."