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.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

True invective requires great imagination.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.