The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.