Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

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

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

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