It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.