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

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.