Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.