You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

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.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.