When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.