The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.