Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.