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There are evils worse than death.
We are all human, and all do wrong.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.
tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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 ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
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.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.