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

In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.