Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.