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

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

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