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

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

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.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

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.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.