We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

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.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.