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

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

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

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.

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

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.