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

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

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.

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

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