A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.