This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.