I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.