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.

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

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

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

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.