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.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.