In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.