A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.