The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.