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

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

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

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

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

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.