Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

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

The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.