In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples i….

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay..

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk ….

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other..

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is a….

There are evils worse than death..

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of….

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes..

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opi….

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young..

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in po….

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true..

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of ….

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master..

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own..

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable..

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can se….

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law..

Individuality is the aim of political liberty..

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal..