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

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

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

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.