I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

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.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.