If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.