Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.