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

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

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

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.