Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'