Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.