"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

"I have traveled a good deal in Concord."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."