Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the ….

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

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind..

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; w….

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore..

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superior….

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to ….

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and ….

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can h….

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night..

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies..

We are all human, and all do wrong..

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions..

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'o….

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; a….

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time..

Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship thes….

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled wi….

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..

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a ne….

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adve….