One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalu….

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United St….

The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the ha….

Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitut….

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all abo….

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient m….

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names..

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popula….

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing th….

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights….

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood..

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority..

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things..

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its ….

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity..

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. I….

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken..

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath….

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squi….