James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Fisher Ames
Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it.