We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

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 find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

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.

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

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

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