Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.