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

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!