Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.