We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

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

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

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.