I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough…

Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.

Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

My object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find a home for the pariahs of every nation. I do not then hesitate to notice the catchpennies hawked in the public streets, as well as the sumptuous volumes got up for the …

In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increment of the power of the hand.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.