If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.