Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

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.

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.

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

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

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

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.