A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.