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

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

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

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.