Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

We can never have enough of Nature.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.