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.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

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

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.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.