It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

All men are children, and of one family.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.