What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.