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

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

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

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.