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.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.