it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.