Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

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

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.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

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

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

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.