In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.