Blame is safer than praise

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.