Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.