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.

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

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

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Rome is an astonishment!

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.