Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

All truth is profound.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

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?

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.