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.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.