Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

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.

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

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

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

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.