Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

At least let us have healthy books.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.