What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.