Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.