Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

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

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

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

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

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Mind is judgmental but heart is not so love with heart, not with mind.

The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

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I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.