Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
True invective requires great imagination.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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.