Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

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

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.