In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.