Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.