How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.