Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.