A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

True invective requires great imagination.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.