If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.