Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...