influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?