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

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

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

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.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

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.