It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.