One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.