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

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

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.

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.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

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