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.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

There are evils worse than death.

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

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

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