There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

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.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?