While we read history we make history.
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.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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.