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

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.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found on…

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