The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.