No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

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.