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

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

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.