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

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

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.