Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

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.

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

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

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

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.