You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.