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.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

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

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

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

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