Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.