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

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

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

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.