No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

There are evils worse than death.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

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

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