The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.