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| My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same | | Speech | |
| Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death | | Nature | |
| Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left. | | Nature | |
| No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what | | Uncategorized | |
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| Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years | | Time | |
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| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. | | Mind | |
| Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th | | Uncategorized | |
| People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' | | Uncategorized | |
| People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. | | Uncategorized | |
| People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. | | Uncategorized | |
| People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. | | Uncategorized | |
