God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

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

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

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

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.