Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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