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

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

There are evils worse than death.

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.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

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