Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

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.

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.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

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.

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.