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

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.